Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Nut Job’ does not start 2014 off well for animation

Гайка Иова не запускается 2014 от хорошо для анимации

Year'ss первый анимационный релиз, "Орех Работа" от оперения студий Toonbox Entertainment в Канаде и Красного Rover International в Южной Корее. На основе своих прицепов, можно подумать, что это было бы анимационная версия "11 друзей Оушена", только с пушистых граждан городском парке, а не куча человека Кидалы. И я думаю, что я сделал то, что их цель.

Но конечный результат, Чья января дата выхода не предлагали хорошие новости, пытается сделать слишком много вещей слишком много символов, чтобы сохранить достаточно внимания на любом одном аспекте истории достаточно долго, чтобы преуспеть.

В сочетании с анимацией сделал просто не складывает По сравнению с более крупными студиями, и у нас есть релиз омрачено кассе долговечности Диснея "Замороженные" и вот-вот будет вытеснен в эти выходные на "The Lego кино."

"Гайка Работа" имеет интересную помещение, но не дожил до своего потенциала. Это, вероятно, развлечь молодую аудиторию, но за свои деньги, есть лучшие варианты там.

The movie is rated PG for mild action and rude humor.Year'ss первый анимационный релиз, "Орех Работа" от оперения студий Toonbox Entertainment в Канаде и Красного Rover International в Южной Корее. На основе своих прицепов, можно подумать, что это было бы анимационная версия "11 друзей Оушена", только с пушистых граждан городском парке, а не куча человека Кидалы. И я думаю, что я сделал то, что их цель.

Фильм рассчитан PG для мягкой действий и грубого юмора.

Wiehernde Herzen mit Flügelchen

12.02.2014 · Kitsch ohne Reue, pure närrische Kraft und ein Massenauflauf von Stars: Akiva Goldsman verfilmt den Fantasy-Bestseller „Winter’s Tale“. Colin Farrells Frisur spielt auch mit.

Von DIETMAR DATH

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Video-Filmkritik: „Winter's Tale“

Wenn die beste Rolle das Pferd spielt, steckt ein Film normalerweise in Schwierigkeiten. In der von Akiva Goldsman mit dem Mutwillen einer tollwütigen Naschkatze bravourös aus dicksten Effektpralinen und Kullertränen zusammengerührten Verfilmung des schwer schmalzigen Fantasy-Romanklassikers „Winter’s Tale“ von Mark Helprin aus dem Jahr 1983 heißt der fragliche Hengst die meiste Zeit über schlicht „Horse“. Das Tier kann den Hofknicks, rettet gern Frauen vor dem Erdolcht- oder Erschossenwerden und hat eine noch schönere Frisur als Colin Farrell, dem man den Nacken und die Ohrengegend so manierlich ausrasiert hat, dass seine dunklen Strähnen ihm vor die Visionen fallen, als stünde er ständig im wilden Schicksalswind.

Federleichte Schönheit: Jessica Brown Findlay als Beverly Penn und Colin Farrell als Peter Lake in „Winter´s Tale“

Guter Geist kommt zur rechten Zeit

Am entscheidenden Kreuzweg der Story angelangt, stellt Farrell als Held Peter Lake eine kluge Frage: Was ist dümmer, ein Pferd, das seinem Herrn nicht gehorcht, oder ein Herr, der dafür auf sein Pferd hört? Die Antwort wird nicht ausgesprochen. Sie hängt aber bestimmt damit zusammen, dass dieses Pferd eigentlich ein verzauberter Hund beziehungsweise ein mythischer Seelenkundschafter aus einem Zoo allwissender Totemtiere ist, über den unter seinem wahren Namen Athansor im Buch allerhand Haarsträubendes zu lesen steht. Das wird im Kino nur angedeutet, denn die wunderliche Schwarte, der Goldsman Stoff und Handlung entnahm, hat fast achthundert Seiten, weshalb ein paar Kürzungen sich nicht umgehen ließen.

Das Wesentliche: Im New York der Belle Époque wächst vor rund hundert Jahren ein von seinen Eltern per Modellschiffchen ausgesetztes Findelkind mit mechanischen und diebischen Talenten zur Hilfskraft eines Dämons heran, dem es schließlich den Dienst verweigert. Der Dämon lässt den jungen Mann jagen, um ihn für seine Treulosigkeit zu bestrafen. Auf der Flucht begegnet dem Gehetzten das besagte Pferd beziehungsweise der erwähnte Hund respektive sein guter Geist. Der führt ihn zum Haus eines gründerzeitlichen Pressemoguls, dessen tuberkulosekranke Tochter sich in den Einbrecher verliebt. Dafür tut ihr der Dämon, der den Räuber hasst, ein Leid an. Dann lässt er den Abtrünnigen in eine Bucht werfen.

Himmlische und höllische Geheimnisse

Der aber überlebt den Sturz und ist fortan unsterblich, verliert freilich bis in unsere Tage sein Gedächtnis. Endlich jedoch geht ihm auf, weshalb er überhaupt lebt: Es hat mit einem schwerkranken kleinen Mädchen des Jahres 2014 und himmlischen wie höllischen Geheimnissen zu tun, in denen sich selbst der Teufel nicht mehr zurechtfindet. Den Teufel spielt übrigens der ehemalige Sonnenprinz Will Smith, mit protzigem Ohrschmuck, Jimi-Hendrix-T-Shirt und exquisit zweideutigen Manierismen. Man glaubt diesem lässigen Luzifer schier alles, was er zischt oder näselt, sogar, dass er seine Laufburschen ungern in aussichtslosen Gefechten verheizt, denn „man gewöhnt sich an die Leute“.

„Winter’s Tale“ lebt als Roman von Helprins verblüffend melodischer Zungenfertigkeit beim Beschwören einer schwärmerisch behaupteten Jenseitsverankerung noch der trivialsten Menschenalltäglichkeiten, von der plötzlichen Einsamkeit am Rand einer Party bis zur Messerstecherei im Gaunermilieu.

Bissiger Gegner der Internetkultur

Helprin ist nicht irgendwer und auch kein Dutzendschmökerkasper, sondern seit Jahrzehnten zum Beispiel beim „New Yorker“ gerngesehener Autor, mehrfach preisgekrönter Romancier und bissiger Gegner der Internetkultur, der das gesetzliche Urheberrecht gern deutlich erweitert statt ausgedünnt sähe. „Winter’s Tale“ ist sein Hauptwerk, eine Art Summe amerikanischer Fertigteilmythologien, als Roman auch in seiner Sprachpracht ein Gegenstück zu religiösen und parareligiösen Texten oder den Werken rhetorisch begabter libertärer Esoteriker - jeder Mechaniker in diesem Buch ist ein episkopalischer Priester, jeder spanische Eisenbeschlag an einem alten Fenster wird beschrieben, als handle es sich um die Zauberstickerei einer menschenfressenden Hexe.

Mariah Carey paid $1 million to perform for Angolan dictator Jose Eduardo dos Santos

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The star played a show for the leader - the second longest serving dictator currently in office - and has been criticized for singing for the man who has been accused of abusing her power and ordering the execution of his opponents.

Evangeline Lilly accused "Hobbit" co-star Orlando Bloom of lying about them getting drunk

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Evangeline Lilly and Orlando Bloom on set of "The Hobbit"

The 34-year-old actress, who has a two-year-old son, Kahekili Kali, claimed her 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' co-star was exaggerating wildly in a recent interview on 'Chelsea Lately,' during which he said they got so "wasted" together that she threw up.

"Clearly Orlando was not at this party! I was there with my girlfriend!"

Monday, February 10, 2014

Ewan McGregor Spends The Last Days

Ewan McGregor Spends The Last Days In The Desert
With Mud's Tye Sheridan

05 February 2014

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Given his experience roaring around sandy climes with his mate for those Long Way bike-umentaries, Ewan McGregor seems like the sort of person to have around if you’re spending time in an arid wasteland. Mud’s Tye Sheridan will no doubt keep that in mind when he works on Last Days In The Desert with the actor.

After working from someone else's script for Albert Nobbs, writer-director Rodrigo Garcia is back pulling double duty for the indie drama, which will find McGregor playing two characters – a holy man and a demon – on a journey through the desert.

When they encounter a family (Sheridan, and parents played by Ciaran Hinds and Man Of Steel’s Ayelet Zurer) struggling to survive, the holy man must confront his own fate and figure out his life.

With Hanway Films adding this to their virtual stall at the European Film Market, Garcia is set to start the cameras rolling this month in the desert outside of Los Angeles. Word to the wise: sand and dirt will eventually get everywhere. It’s just best to learn to live with it.

McGregor was last seen as part of the August: Osage County ensemble and has just finished shooting Mortdecai with Johnny Depp. Sheridan is part of the cast of David Gordon Green’s Joe(out July 25) and has worked on Dark Places with Nicholas Hoult, Chloe Grace Moretz and Charlize Theron.

Sabotage Red Band

Sabotage Red Band Trailer Attacks The Web
Arnie & co are on the case

09 February 2014

With one all-audiences trailer out there since last November, the team behind David Ayer’s cop thriller Sabotage has now kicked things up a gear, letting loose a Red Band promo that carries on the basic story of the first look but amps up the swearing and the nudity. With the usual NSFW warning, the new footage can be watched below.

Sabotage finds Arnold Schwarzenegger in charge of an elite DEA unit that raids drug cartels and brings some very nasty criminals to justice. But on their latest bust, something odd happens: $10m in drug money goes missing, and someone starts killing off the squad members. Soon investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams, getting the chance to be a badass) is poking around the case, looking for whoever nicked the cash and trying to stop other members being offed.

With a cast that also includes Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Max Martini, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau and Mireille Enos, Sabotage looks to be another riff on team bonding, betrayal, and bullet-flinging from Ayer, who last brought us End Of Watch. It’ll march on to our screens on May 9.

Game Of Thrones Season 4

New Game Of Thrones Season 4 Preview Lands
Warning: Here be Season 3 spoilers

10 February 2014

If you haven’t seen Season 3 of Game Of Thrones, allows us to summarise: HOLY BLOODY CRAP. Right, you’re up to date and ready to go with this fascinating insight into the fourth instalment of HBO’s masterfully conceived fantasy epic. It’s called Ice And Fire: A Foreshadowing and is a full 15 minutes of previewing goodness, with contributions from co-creator David Benioff and key cast members.

So what does Season 4 promise? Well, considerable anxiety for Tyrion Lannister. Peter Dinklage’s Imp is in jeopardy from all sides and, according to Dinklage himself, will be reliant on the goodwill of his brother Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to bail him out.

Also in evidence here are Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, increasing in size and lethalness, and the wintery goings-on north of The Wall. But the most significant event, at least for Westeros’s wider future, is the Purple Wedding between – boo! hiss! – King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer).

Watch it all unfold from April 7 in the UK and a day earlier in the US.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier Will Set Up Age Of Ultron

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Marvel has pitched Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a '70s-style conspiracy thriller. If that translates onto the screen it could take Cap off in interesting new directions in his second solo outing. Rest assured, however, that he's coming straight back. Disney chief Robert Iger confirmed in an investors' conference call that there'll be direct connective tissue linking Cap 2 with Avengers: The Age Of Ultron.

"I’ve really been impressed with the early buzz that we’re seeing for the Marvel films", enthused the Mouse House's head cheese.

"Captain America 2 is just huge", he went on, "and it takes the Captain America story to incredible new levels". He added that it "will set critical events in motion" that lead into Avengers: The Age Of Ultron and possibly Agents Of SHIELD, too.

The scuttlebutt from early test screenings is that the post-credits sting will see [spoiler warning: highlight text to reveal] Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), twoAge Of Ultronites, show up and strutt their stuff. Could that be what Iger's referring to? Here's the trailer to scour for clues.

Things are predictably rosy in the Disney garden just now. Iger shared the corp's year-on-year revenue gains - up 8.5 per cent to $12.30bn, or "a shitheap of money" in layman's terms - while cheery investors were busy sipping from flutes crafted with jewels served by gold-plated robot butlers (we assume).

Jason Statham On For The Mechanic 2

Jason Statham’s 2010 action-thriller The Mechanic was a throwaway hitman thriller that was a lot more fun and a lot less po-faced than it first appeared. It had a terrific poster, a bit where Stath stuck on some Schubert (not even at gunpoint) and more double-crossing than a stack of hot cross buns. Simon West handled that one and now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the monkey wrench is being passing to versatile German director Dennis Gansel for a sequel that will see Statham back in action as ronin-like hitman – or ‘mechanic’ – Arthur Bishop.

Gansel is a filmmaker who Hollywood has been trying to get its claws into for some time now. Back in 2008 he got good notices for The Wave, a pungent social satire about a teacher who establishes a dictatorship in his classroom, and terrorist thriller The Fourth State followed four years later and also impressed. The Mechanic 2 will give him the chance to show his wares with more a straightforward genre piece.

It’s no surprise (or major spoiler) to say that the first film left Statham’s mechanic at large and primed to get back to work. Expect more inventive offings from the cultured assassin, more doting lady pals and more cool cars.

The Berlin Film Festival may be better known for its art house leanings and auteur-y schmoozings, but there’s also a big movie bazaar attached and Nu Image Films will be hoping the appeal of tapping Statham’s loyal fan base helps win The Mechanic 2 backing from the money men present.

Hoffman's NYC funeral attracts Hollywood stars

Hoffman's death draws attention to surge in heroin use

Ethan Hawke arrives for the funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 in New York. Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Director Mike Nichols, left, and Diane Sawyer arrive for the funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 in New York. Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The coffin holding Hoffman's body was brought out of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola by pallbearers and put in a hearse as family and guests began to stream out Friday afternoon. Streep hugged Diane Sawyer as they left.

"He left an enormous amount of love behind. It's a terrible loss," said Jose Rivera, a playwright whose work has been produced by Hoffman's LAByrinth Theatre Company.

He said the service was loving and simple, with people sharing their memories of Hoffman and laughing. "It was quite beautiful and heartfelt and sincere, and everybody had a lot to remember, in terms of Phil," Rivera said.

The list of mourners also included Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix, Louis C.K., Mary Louise Parker, John Slattery, Laura Linney, Jerry Stiller, Chris Rock, Marisa Tomei, Spike Lee and Sawyer's husband, the director Mike Nichols. Playwright David Bar Katz, who found Hoffman's body, was visibly upset as he arrived.

"Phil was a lovely guy, a great artist," said Lee, who directed Hoffman in "The 25th Hour." ''I was only able to work with him one time, but I love him and, a big loss, a big loss."

Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose in his apartment. He leaves behind his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children. O'Donnell was seen cradling their youngest child as she entered the church.

Police did not allow anyone to linger on the block outside the church, and the media was penned in an area far from the mourners.

A larger memorial service is being planned for later this month. On Thursday evening, family and close friends gathered for a private wake at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan.

The rumpled, heavy-set Hoffman was known to dive into roles and was nominated for Academy Awards four times: for "The Master," ''Doubt," ''Charlie Wilson's War" and "Capote," which he won. He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn in 2012 as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman."

The theater community mourned the actor Wednesday with a candlelit vigil outside his beloved LAByrinth company downtown and with Broadway's marquee lights turned off for a minute.

More tests are needed to determine what exactly killed Hoffman, who was found with a syringe in his arm and what authorities said were dozens of packets of heroin in his apartment. Autopsy results were inconclusive, authorities said this week.

Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, the versatile actor reportedly checked himself into rehab for 10 days last year after relapsing in 2012.

Amid an investigation into Hoffman's death, three people have been arraigned on drug charges, including one who is facing a felony charge of heroin possession with intent to sell. Lawyers for the three people charged vigorously denied their clients had any role in Hoffman's death.

Many of those who attended the funeral had professional ties to Hoffman. He and Blanchett co-starred in "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Burstyn and Hoffman were in "Red Dragon," and Hawke co-starred with Hoffman in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Slattery directed Hoffman in his new film "God's Pocket," and Nichols directed Hoffman on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman." Phoenix shared the screen with Hoffman in "The Master." Adams starred with him in "Doubt."